Improvement in bundling-machines



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IMPROVEMENT IN BUNDLING-MACEINES.

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'IO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONGE-RN:

Be it vknown that I, EDWARD J. REDDY, ot Bayville, in the county of Queens, and State of New York, have invented `a new and improved Bundling-Machine; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear,

`and exact description thcreowhich will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

Figure 1 is a top view of my improved machine, part being broken away to show the construction'.

Figure 2 is a vertical cross-section of the same taken through the line x c, gfl.

4Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding part.

My invention has for its object to furnish an improved machine, designed especially for bunching or bundling asparagus and other vegetables, but which may be applied with equal advantage for bundling wood, or other things to be put up in bundles or bunches, and which shall at the same time be simple in construction, and easily operated, and it consists in the constru tion and combination of the various parts, .ashereinafterl more fully described.

A is the frame of themachine.

B is a shaft, which works in bearings in the frame A, andto one end of which is at-tached the handle C.

D are guard-frames, attached to the frame A, and the upper parts of' which are curved, as shown in iig. 2.

E is a flexible band, one end of which is attached to the body of the guard-frames D, in the bottom of the curved upper part of said frames. The other end ofthe open bands o r straps E is passed through a slot in the bottom of the curved part of theframes D, beneath the stationary end of saidi'strap or band, and is securely attached to the edge of the segment F of a wheel, which is rigidly attached to the shaft B, as shown in iig. 2. One, two, or any desired number of bands E, frames D, and segmental wheels F, may be used, as may-be desired, er as 'the character of the material to be hunched or bundled may require. The bands E may form circles of the vsame size, or some of them may be smaller than the others, according as the material will form a cylindrical or tapering bundle. i l

- G is a vertical stop-plate, attached to the forward part ofthe frameA, so as to be parallel with the bands E, against which the ends of the material to be hunched may strike, so that the end of the bunch or bundle may be square. v

To the end of thc shaft B is attached the end of Vtho handle C, the lower end of which is slotted, so as to v receive the segmental rack or notched plate H.

The hand-piece c1 'of the handle C is so formed and attached to the stem of `said handle as to partially revolve, so that a projection, c2, formed upon the lower end of said hand-piece, may be turned into the teeth or notches oi' the rack H, so as to holdthe said handle O in position, compressing'ythe bundleuntil it is securely tied.

In using the machine, the handle C is adjusted in position to expandithe hands or-strapsE to their full extent. The articles to be hunched or bundled are then placed-within thesaid hands, they acting as a gauge to regulate the size of4 the bunchor bundle, so that thc'bunches or bundles may all be of the same size. The

handle is then turned down, drawing the bands E closely around the bunch or bundle, compressing; it, when, by

a slight turn of the hand-piece cl of the handle, the machine will be locked, and tli-e bundle be held securely until it` can be tied up.

By means of'a machine thus constructed and arranged, the bunching may bc done readily and rapidly, all the bunches being made of a uniform size. v

I claim as new, and desire to secure by `Letters Patent- The handle C, having themovable hand-piecc cl and stop ci, the toothed segment H, shaft B, and segments F, constructed to operate the flexible bands E,'as herein described, forth@ purpose specied.

EDWARD J. REDDY.

Witnesses.:

WILLIAM It. BELL, H. W. TAYLOR. 

